Table of Contents - SPE304: Avalonian and Related Peri-Gondwanan Terranes of the Circum–North Atlantic


Preface

INTRODUCTION

Avalonian and Related Peri-Gondwanan Terranes of the Circum–North Atlantic: An Introduction, R. D. Nance and M. D. Thompson

AVALONIAN TYPE AREA

Late Neoproterozoic Avalonian and Related Peri-Gondwanan Rocks of the Newfoundland Appalachians, S. J. O’Brien, B. H. O’Brien, G. R. Dunning, and R. D. Tucker

AVALONIAN OVERSTEP SEQUENCE

Avalon: Insular Continent by the Latest Precambrian, E. Landing

TERRANES OF EASTERN NORTH AMERICA

Late Proterozoic to Paleozoic Evolution of the St. Pierre and Miquelon Islands: A New Piece in the Avalonian Puzzle of the Canadian Appalachians, D. Rabu, D. Thiéblemont, M. Tegyey, C. Guerrot, C. Alsac, J.-J. Chauvel, J. B. Murphy, and J. D. Keppie

Contrasts in Late Precambrian–Early Paleozoic Tectonothermal History Between Avalon Composite Terrane Sensu Stricto and Other Possible Peri-Gondwanan Terranes in Southern New Brunswick and Cape Breton Island, Canada, S. M. Barr and C. E. White

Repeated Late Neoproterozoic–Silurian Lower Crustal Melting Beneath the Antigonish Highlands, Nova Scotia: Nd Isotopic Evidence and Tectonic Interpretations, J. B. Murphy, J. D. Keppie, J. Dostal, and B. L. Cousens

Precambrian Plutons of the Cobequid Highlands, Nova Scotia, Canada, G. Pe-Piper, D. J. W. Piper, and I. Koukouvelas

Geology of the Brookville Terrane, Southern New Brunswick, Canada, C. E. White and S. M. Barr

The New River Belt: A Unique Segment Along the Western Margin of the Avalon Composite Terrane, Southern New Brunswick, Canada, S. C. Johnson and M. J. McLeod

Silurian-Devonian Dextral Reactivation Near the Inboard Margin of the Avalon Composite Terrane: Kinematic Evidence from the Kingston Complex, Southern New Brunswick, Canada, K. A. Schreckengost and R. D. Nance

Tectonostratigraphic Implications of Late Proterozoic U-Pb Zircon Ages in the Avalon Zone of Southeastern New England, M. D. Thompson, O. D. Hermes, S. A. Bowring, C. E. Isachsen, J. R. Besancon, and K. L. Kelly

Geochemical and Petrologic Evidence of Avalonian Arc to Rift Transition from Granitoids in Southeastern Rhode Island, C. I. Mancuso, A. E. Gates, and J. H. Puffer

Evidence for Mesoproterozoic Basement in the Carolina Terrane and Speculations on Its Origin, P. A. Mueller, M. Kozuch, A. L. Heatherington, J. L. Wooden, T. W. Offield, R. P. Koeppen, T. L. Klein, and A. P. Nutman

Geochemistry of Volcanic Rocks of the Carolina and Augusta Terranes in Central South Carolina: An Exotic Rifted Volcanic Arc? J. W. Shervais, S. A. Shelley, and D. T. Secor, Jr.

The Carolina Terrane in Northwestern South Carolina: Insights into the Development of an Evolving Island Arc, A. J. Dennis and J. W. Shervais

Neoproterozoic Magmatism in the Suwannee Terrane: Implications for Terrane Correlation, A. L. Heatherington, P. A. Mueller, and A. P. Nutman

TERRANES OF WESTERN EUROPE

The Evolution of the Neoproterozoic Avalonian Subduction System: Evidence from the British Isles, W. Gibbons and J. M. Horák

The Cadomian Orogeny Revisited in Northern Brittany (France), E. Egal, C. Guerrot, E. Le Goff, D. Thiéblemont, and J. Chantraine

Neoproterozoic Evolution of an Active Plate Margin: North Armorican Massif, France, R. A. Strachan, R. S. D’Lemos, and R. D. Dallmeyer

PALEOGEOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATIONS

Basement Isotopic Signatures and Neoproterozoic Paleogeography of Avalonian-Cadomian and Related Terranes in the Circum–North Atlantic, R. D. Nance and J. B. Murphy

Provenance and Tectonic History of the Gander Zone in the Caledonian/Appalachian Orogen: Implications for the Origin and Assembly of Avalon, C. R. van Staal, R. W. Sullivan, and J. B. Whalen

Terrane Transfer Between Eastern Laurentia and Western Gondwana in the Early Paleozoic: Constraints on Global Reconstructions, J. D. Keppie, J. Dostal, J. B. Murphy, and R. D. Nance

Index